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Bombers Direct AssaultsOn Army, Navy Bases;Try for Carrier LangleyEnemy Sweeps Length of Islands With Loss of Life Reported; Fire at JNiehols Field Follows Raid(Continued From JPage One)from Formosa announced that the United States island of Guam was taken without resistance.”The airfield at Davao was blasted at the same time the Langley was attacked. Twenty-four Japanese raiders struck at this field, hitting hangars and ruining runways.Fifty persons were reported killed in unconfirmed advices.Other Points RaidedOther points raided in the Philippines were Baguio, summer mountain capital in mid-Luzon, where slight damage was caused to the near-by army camp, Fort John Hay; Camp Stotsenburg, where a number of buildings were set afire and U. S. army phone connections to Manila cut; the Batan islands, northernmost of the Philippines and Aparri, northernmost port on Luzon.Unconfirmed reports said that 10,000 of the 25,000 Japanese who inhabit the Davao region at the southern end of the Philippines were armed and ready for action, and it was feared that they would attempt to defend their holdings.It also was feared that the attacks on Davao might be a prelude to a more serious Japanese attempt to wrest control of the sealanes leading southward to Borneo.Attacked TwiceThe Langley was attacked twice while lying in Malalag bay, an undeveloped U. S. naval base. One other U. S. warship at the scene was reported to have fired on the planes, bringing one down. A shoreside radio station also wasbombed.Aside from tire attacks on the Philippines, Fan*-American Airways reported that Wake island had been smashed” by Japanese planes, and the Japanese radio on Formosa said all big buildings on Guam were afire and that the♦ island was ringed with Japanes warships.The same broadcast said th Japanese South China fleet ha bombarded Hong Kong Monda morning, destroying 12 of the 1 planes grounded at the Kowloo military airport. The Pn-Amei lean Hong Kong clipper was darr aged while tied up near by, a independent report said.Manila has no public air rai shelters, and the government wa speeding evacuation of the cit; Schools were closed. Police an firemen were on 24-hour duty.We’re too damned busy t count the score yet,” America military observers said of th widespread aerial duels.NBC reporters describing thattacks from the top of an eightstory building said they saw bi. fires in the direction of Fort MeKinley and Nichols field in Manili The whole southern sky is • brilliant red,” they said, then re ported later that the flames wer subsiding.They described the crash of th antiaircraft fire and the stream Of red tracer bullets cutting th skies, and termed the Japanes bombers fiendishly accurate.”A terrific air raid” on Clarl field, 40 miles north of Manila was reported by them, along wit! an unverified report that 25 Amer ican bombers were destroy e» there.The bombing has not been in discriminate, but it seemingly ha been very accurate.”There was no official informa lion regarding American offshor naval activities, but it wgs .know: that war era ft and a Host of tor pedo boats were on patrol, aug merited by U. S. aircraft.Unconfirmed but disturbing re ports circulated about the situa tion at Davao, the site of the hug-Japanese colony said to be read; to go into action as the fifti column” of the Philippines in ordc: to aid a Japanese landine'.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Tue, Dec 09, 1941
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